Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
There’s beauty in spending an extra two minutes to make a connection. There’s beauty in ignoring your watch and making someone’s day. There’s beauty to extending a deadline to double-check your work.
Equally, there’s beauty in cutting time.
To do the painstakingly hard work of caring more than anyone else – about your work and about those closest to you. Sometimes they conflict and that’s okay so long as you’re doing one of them.
Stay Positive & Do The Hard Work
Garth E. Beyer
The web is like a shortcut, a way to streamline any process, a method of simplifying the complex, leaving the hard work still needing to be done.
Anyone can now do anything with the web. I can collect programmers to mimic nearly any site available which makes that site less valuable. It’s a crumbling collection of incredible infrastructure and design.
If a blog, a website, an online service is all that you have to offer, there’s a very low life expectancy for you.
Remember that the hard work can’t be accomplished online. You can get by for a time, but with how swift laypeople are at creating online content, it won’t be long until someone mimics your original idea and adds their human, offline, personal touch to it.
Stay Positive & The Web Gives You Freedom, But There’s Still Competition
Garth E. Beyer
They are everywhere waiting for you to connect with them, give them a rubik’s cube they want (and can) figure out, and a reward for completing it.
Go start, anywhere, with anyone. Connect. Challenge. Reward.
Stay Positive & Note: Reward Is Not The Most Important
Garth E. Beyer
Checking Facebook when you first wake up can be a good thing. I’ve read articles that suggest you shouldn’t check your phone right away (FB,email, texts,etc,.), that you should wake up on your own schedule, enjoy life a bit, and deal with all the work that your phone is blinking at you at a later time. But then, ignoring these suggestions, this morning I read the following on Facebook,
“All artists should be treated with respect I always see many people getting put down at doing what they love and lose confidence to making music,making art, dancing , and whatever you do, keep your head up and chase your dreams, because every person out there has the capability to do anything in life!”
This is as livening as a cup of coffee, if not more.
Those suggesting you don’t check your phone right away are half right. I am all for staying unplugged a couple of mornings a week to take a walk down to the lake or do a workout without any distractions, but what people fail to recognize is our need to evaluate what calls our attention in the morning.
There are negative consequences to checking our phone as soon as we wake up when we read a Facebook feed filled with complaints, an RSS feed of the days most negative news, our work email instead of our personal email.
Give yourself a morning stream of awesome on your phone and I don’t see a problem with checking it before we all get out of bed.
Stay Positive & Combine It With Coffee, You’ll Be Set To Go All Day
Garth E. Beyer
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Quickly, don’t be confused. I didn’t say death of “spectator sports.”
Last night at Miller Park I watched the Brewers shut out the Cubs. Victory for the Brewers meant that the Cubs are officially the worst team in the league right now. Given that they were tied with the Brewers for that title before the game, victory was not as great to the Brewers as, say, it was to the Chicago Blackhawks.
What I realized though, was that the sport itself didn’t make the game. My great experience was not fueled by the talent and flare of the players. Heck, I could have watched a little league baseball game and been more impressed. That aside, place me in any stadium, field, or rink and what makes it remarkable is everyone in the stands.
Previously called “spectators,” that’s a dying phrase in sports.
A spectator is someone who looks on or watches. Simple as that. But when I scan the stands, I don’t see any spectators. (Worth noting, to be a spectator also implies being silent, taking it all in. It’s difficult to be a spectator when you are texting someone the score, high-fiving those behind you, making noise, and shouting “Let’s Go Brewers.”)
What I see is people connecting, relaxing, cheering, and making the most of their ballgame experience, not just the ballgame. “This spectator sport” and “that spectator sport” are simply categories for people to meet up with like-minded people, not to watch players pitch a ball or hit a puck.
The reason for this post is to note that it is easy to turn a business into a baseball game. The part oft forgotten is that you still need to build a stadium that certain types of people go to. This may mean that there’s a seating limit, certain concessions, and a place for people to purchase matching clothes.
The players/clients don’t make the game/business, the game/business makes the players/clients.
BallParkFood for thought: Maybe we don’t go to sporting events to watch them play. Maybe they play sports to get us (the audience/fans/families/superfans) to go crazy, interact with each other, and connect on what I consider a personal level.
Stay Positive & Take Me Out To The Ball Game
Garth E. Beyer
Showing up on time has its perks, but you rely on other factors being in the right place to benefit you. You can show up early, but if no one is there… now what? blog?
The times of showing up early and benefiting from it are slowly passing. We’re entering an era that every meeting, conference, and think-tank coordinator has a tight schedule.
All the while, others (primarily the millennials – guilty) are making the most out of every moment. They are continuously asking themselves if they are getting more out of “this” than they could be if they went to “that.” Options infinitum.
Being there early doesn’t create trust. Being there on time does.
Respect is attached to time and not only respect for those whose time you are using, but your own time. In the connected world, we can monitor where various events, groups, friends, meetings, and coworkers are. We owe it to ourselves to be respecting our own time as we are respecting others.
Sometimes that means leaving “this” for “that.”
Stay Positive & Spread Your Time
Garth E. Beyer
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